Hello I am new to perl and was trying to load data from a text file on my hard drive and failing that, from a text file on the server, to a table in a database on the server, and neither worked.

It only worked when I went into PHPMyAdmin on the server, from a text file on my hard drive to the table, but I wanted to do it from the script as hereunder which was the script I tried to load data on a text file on the server to a table in the database. I did not receive any error notices when I brought the file up in the address and pressed enter and/or refresh. I knew it didn't work because when I refreshed the table there was no new data therein:- 

#!/user/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

#open connection to access database
$dbh =
DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:bgoddard_musicexperiences:localhost","","");

#prepare and execute SQL statement

$sqlstatement="LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'reas_orders.txt' INTO TABLE 're
+as_orders'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '/' ESCAPED BY '\\' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'";
$sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
$sth->execute or
     die "Could not execute SQL statement ... maybe invalid?";

$dbh->disconnect;

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In reply to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE by brin

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